After five hours of LIVE broadcasting from Camp Casey (as we now do every day on The BRAD SHOW via RAW RADIO's special "Operation Noble Cause" coverage) We've just been given the go ahead for exclusive coverage of tonight's Joan Baez performance LIVE from Camp Casey in Crawford Texas!

It is so exciting to see that all of your efforts blogging and slogging in the --ditches and trenches-- (that's us.. the 6 or 7... no offense meant, as I'm sure the 6 or 7 will understand) are taking wing in such glorious fashion.

When we join together and withhold our purchases from some targeted Republican contributors we can wield power that will force the executives of these Republican contributors to go to the Republican party do our agenda.
Now, the agenda written below does not address everything but you can choose a big company that gives aid and comfort to the Republican Party and demand that their executives get the Republican Party to do what you want. You can excercise this power every day and you can get other people to join and exercise this power every day. What company executive would want thousands of people demanding a set of progressive agenda, every day with a legal threat of losing your business? Join me and I promise you a peaceful revolution. No need to go out in the streets, no need for first amendment zones, no arrests. You create a no buy zone for some selected Republican contributors such as Walmart, etc. Join me, please.

A political message from the Revolution for progressive legislation.

Here's how we force congress to pass a progressive agenda. Companies do not like boycotts. I suggest you email these demands to Walmart, Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Curves for Women health clubs, each big Republican contributors. Also include Eckerd, CVS, and Walgreens Pharmacy chains. You can send this to other companies as well.

Send this email to your friends and to others on political mailing lists. Thank you.

Send this text in email or fax to a company you can afford to boycott which either heavily supports Republicans or should know better that we need progressive legislative change.

We demand that your company executives get the Republican Party to hold a press conference and accede to these demands and then finally legislate and sign these into law. Until such a press conference happens and the legislation gets passed I will boycott your products.

We demand that the Republican party end their aggressive and hateful action to end a woman's right to choose abortion or not.

We demand the resignation of Tom Delay.

We demand that the United States withdraw from Iraq.

We demand that the Congress of the United states and the president of the United States enact a law to increase the minimum wage to TEN dollars an hour and also to extend unemployment benefits for all people whose unemployment benefits expired after 6 months even though they still seek work.

We also demand that the Congress of the United States to not privatize social security benefits in any form including taking a percentage of the social security tax and placing it in private accounts. People can already create their own pensions with money after taxes in the private sector.

We also demand that the congress make all of a person's earned income taxable for social security FICA tax purposes and remove the 88,000 dollar salary cap. This will make social security solvent for many years to come.

We demand the congress increase the payroll tax in order to make social security solvent as well.

We also demand congress and the president enact a prescription drug benefit under Medicare Part B which covers 80 percent of medication cost, with no extra premium, no extra deductibles, no means test and no coverage gaps, and no penalties for signing up in a succeeding year..

We also call for the complete repeal of the faulty Medicare law HR 1 / S 1 passed by congress in Nov 2003.

We also demand vote by mail throughout the United States of America. This will prevent Republicans from vote suppression by skin color which happened electronicly and in person in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Demand that your state implement vote by mail with ballots easy to fill out and difficult to change or invalidate by Republican Party officials.

We demand Civil servants on every state payroll should keep track of voter registrations and vote counting of mail in votes in each precinct and not companies such as Choicepoint. We need to take the Republican Party out of the business of keeping track of voter registration and counting votes.

We demand States ban the secretary of state from engaging in politics especially acting as a campaign official for a presidential campaign.

We do this in the spirit of peaceful resistance to a congress that refuses to enact this legislation

If you don't support what the Republicans did since they took over the House of Representatives in 1995 and don't support the Republican party's plans for this year then Join the revolution for progressive legislation and sign the petition at

UNTIL their company executives get the President of the United States aka THE CHIMP to hold a press conference announcing that he will withdraw all US Troops from Iraq, to get replaced by UN troops to defend Iraq until Iraq troops can defend their own country.

In addition to sending email from the web site you can make these demands of GE through their public relations officials. Please act polite when contacting them.

{Sorry, Peter. We have a lot of dial-up traffic. Large images like this make the blog very slow for many people. You can post small images if you like --- but these were way too big. Please post links rather than large images. Thank you. WP}

In March 2005 thousands of people assembled outside Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, the largest Army instillation in the world, to protest two years of U.S. occupation in Iraq.

War supporters denounced them as, "dirty, hippy, commie, pinkos," but the truth paints a far different picture. The group was primarily veterans and family members of soldiers who had fought and died in the war-torn regions of the Middle East. They belonged to organizations like Veterans for Peace, Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, Gold Star Families for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out.

A young group of veterans, reservists, and active-duty military personnel who had served in some of the deadliest combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan led this demonstration in a morning march through the city streets. Soldiers stationed at Ft. Bragg left base against the orders of their commanding officers and joined their fellow GIs in expressing their resentment toward the war. The following day a newly formed organization named "Iraq Veterans Against the War" held its first national meeting. This event marked the beginning of an organized GI resistance against the Gulf War.

OPERATION: VETERAN FREEDOM
chronicles the events that led to this first national meeting and provides a rare view of the inner battles that faced these veterans upon their return home from the combat zone.

It's like when you see a car accident happening and it seems to be in some sort of horrible slo motion. You want to reach out and stop it, but you can't. You want to scream, but you can't.

The world today feels like a car wreck happening. At least we can scream! Thank God some folks are making their voices heard. Maybe it will be more and more and finally it will be like one voice.

Saying "are we finally ready to give peace a chance?"

Kos was going off on antiwar protestors today. He claims, archly, to be for war, just against this war.
He seems to think anti-war folks are puddingheads.

Well, I guess war is a mighty groovy thing in any situation where there is an absolute distinction between the white hats and the black hats. In any other situation it's either a disaster or next best thing to a disaster.

Peg, there is this notion that wealth is created by taking. One person's well being is built on another person's misery.

I think that notion is the philosophical underpinning of the world culture that seems to be coming into being.

Not overtly, of course. Overtly, the New World Order is very magnanimous. But take away the wrapping paper and what lies underneath is a very dark world view.

If only we could, as you say, become more human. Humanity does have a dark side, but there is so much that is beautiful about it.

If we could just acknowledge our limits, we would paradoxically find that the sky is the limit.

Example if the United States had been willing to acknowledge that changes on the world stage are moving towards an inevitable lessoning of its centrality and power (the EU, the rise of China, the future rise of Latin america, etc.) and if it had been willing gracefully embrace such changes, it might have been able to have an influence on the future of world civilization unparalleled and for the good. Such was the stored up diplomatic capital based on the prestige of the United States.

But instead the United States chose a self righteous outburst of assertion and power, led by the dreams and nightmares of the neocons and driven by the dark greeds of the corporatists and big money interests.

Result? It may be that never in the world's history has a "world's sole superpower" marginalized itself so swiftly. However, the dark consequences of our rash and unprincipled actions may be with us for decades.

Thank you Cindy for your inspiration, dedication, and for being a TRUE patriot. There are many here in my town (hometown of John Ashcroft) who support you. We had almost 300 at the candlelight vigil last week.

I love Joan Baez. What a beautiful voice. One of my all time favorite songs is her "There But For Fortune". Melts my heart every time.

Do you really think Cindy is doing something to help the troops in Iraq by giving the enemy the impression we are just like Osama said we were? When the tough gets going we pack up and leave, like we have been doing for the past 30 years. Itís time to take a stand and we have done it. Look at what is happening in the World. Syria is out of Lebanon, Israel is out of Gaza. Libya has changed as has Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and so many other countries in the Middle East.

The people in Iraq will have a democracy and they will stop the violence here. They are ready and they are tired of the criminals killing their children. The soldiers in Iraq are not. They chose to be there and they see the good in Iraq and the struggle of the people there. You are not helping anyone but the democrats that are hiding behind your skirt and not standing by your side. Where are they? Yea, Conyers gives you a few lines on his blog because you attended his mock herrings on the fake DSMís and he needs to sell a few more Commission Reports. But, even they know you canít lead them to the promise land and they are simply waiting to throw you into kooky-ville when the news media tires of you and their public opinion shifts back to supporting the job the troops are doing there in Iraq.

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Anybody know anything more about the triple car bombing in Ramadi yesterday? Only the foreign press has covered it at all (e.g. Pravda), and the Marines have refused to state US casualties. A US convoy was targetted by the first bomb, then a second targetted a building frequented by US soldiers, then a third one detonated as US rescuers arrived.

"Do you really think Cindy is doing something to help the troops in Iraq by giving the enemy the impression we are just like Osama said we were?"

I can't imagine anything more pathetic than letting a jibe from Osama drive our foreign policy.

Do you really think Cindy is doing something to help the troops in Iraq by giving the enemy the impression we are just like Osama said we were?"

I think the impression Cindy is getting is that this Iraq war never made any sense and makes less sense now than it did before.

"When the tough gets going we pack up and leave, like we have been doing for the past 30 years. "

The other way to look at it is that our foreign policy has been continually getting us into situations that are not sustained by the will of the people, in part because they are flat out un-righteous.

"Itís time to take a stand and we have done it. "

It's always time to take a stand, as long as it is a right stand. Funny thing, people sometimes are most rigid and determined when the stand they have taken is a wrong stand.

Syria is out of Lebanon"

I don't know that Iraq had anything to do with that. But it might have.

"Israel is out of Gaza. "

And Israel is expanding and entrenching its grip on the West Bank and particularly Jerusalem.

"Libya has changed "

That's been going on for a long time and has little, I believe, to do with Bush' policies.

"as has Egypt"

Barely. Egypt, like Pakistan, is a testament to how choosy we've been about where to push for "democracy". I'd say Bush is pushing less for democracy than for hypocrisy.

"The people in Iraq will have a democracy"

That's dubious in a number of different ways.

"they will stop the violence here. "

I hope they stop the violence. We don't seem to be stopping it. If anything, our presence seems to be a cause of violence, a rallying point and a reason.

"They are ready and they are tired of the criminals killing their children. "

When we invaded, we created chaos and we apparently never had a real plan to prevent it or stop it. It appears that in some regions, the people are turning to the insurgents themselves to stop the chaos.

" They chose to be there "

They went where they were ordered to go, right?

"they see the good in Iraq and the struggle of the people there."

I hope everyone sees that.

"Conyers gives you a few lines on his blog because you attended his mock herrings on the fake DSMís and he needs to sell a few more Commission Reports. "

I don't like Conyers anymore, since he decided to fawn on Kerry.

"But, even they know you canít lead them to the promise land and they are simply waiting to throw you into kooky-ville when the news media tires of you and their public opinion shifts back to supporting the job the troops are doing there in Iraq. "

OT again: uruknet is announcing that FIFTY Marines were killed by the Ramadi blasts. (See above post #50.) First five soldiers, then ten by the second bomb, then 25 on the third. Also that a number of Iraqi troops were shot and killed by US Marines when they were mistaken for the enemy.

Is uruknet ("the voice of occupied Iraq") credible? Is CENTCOM hushing up this appalling death toll until the Iraqis get their Constitution finished?

Death toll of US Marines expected to top 50 after five Resistance car bombs rock ar-Ramadi Tuesday.

First bomb reportedly kills five US troops in a Humvee . . .

The first report of a Resistance car bomb attack on US forces in ar-Ramadi on Tuesday came in in a dispatch posted at 12:45pm Mecca time Tuesday. Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before, an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom bomber had driven an explosives-packed car into a US military column on the main road near the provincial government offices in the city of ar-Ramadi 110Km west of Baghdad.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in ar-Ramadi reported witnesses as saying that the Resistance fighter surprised the American column when he burst out of a side street into the US troops, blowing himself and his car up amidst them.

The blast destroyed one Humvee, killing its five-man crew, the correspondent reported.

Then in a dispatch posted at 1:05pm Mecca time Tuesday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses in ar-Ramadi as saying that a short while earlier, an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom bomber drove an explosives-laden car into a house that US troops were using as a local headquarters near the industrial zone in the eastern part of the city, 110km west of Baghdad.

Home owners neighboring the scene of the attack told the ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that a Resistance fighter in a big car got past the protective concrete barricades that the Americans had put up around the house and blew up in the courtyard. The powerful blast brought down the entire house, flattening it to the ground, the witnesses said, and destroying three Humvees. More than 20 US troops who were in the house at the time, among them five US snipers, were killed, the neighbors said.

The correspondent reported that the explosion was so powerful that houses more than 400 meters away from the blast suffered damage.

Third bomb, in a truck, rips through US troops in ar-Ramadi Tuesday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 1:50pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the ar-Ramadi correspondent reported that a third Iraqi Resistance martyrdom vehicle bomb had exploded amidst a crowd of US soldiers who were evacuating dead and wounded from the second car bombing that took place a little while earlier when a Resistance fighter rammed into a house used by US forces as a local headquarters.

Witnesses of neighboring houses reported that a martyrdom fighter drove a big tank truck out of a house adjacent to the US headquarters which had already been struck by a bomber a few minutes earlier. The tanktruck bomber blasted into the American troops and vehicles gathered at the scene where they were recovering bodies and injured soldiers from the house.

The witnesses said that the tank truck bomber destroyed two US Humvees and wounded or killed some 25 more American troops.

Fourth Resistance car bomber blasts US troops. . .

In a dispatch posted at 2:05pm Mecca time, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that a short while before a fourth Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter attacked a US column on the main road near the al-Haqq Mosque near the eastern entrance to ar-Ramadi.

Witnesses said that the Resistance fighter drove hic Caprice car into a column of US troops that was on its way to join the Americans near the place where two other vehicle bombs blasted a US headquarters not long before. The car bomber blasted into the front of the American column, destroying two Humvees and killing five US troops and wounding three more.

Fifth Resistance bomb slams US column in western part of the city late Tuesday afternoon. . .

In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a spokesman for the Iraqi puppet army as saying that about an hour before (i.e., at about 6:30pm local time) a fifth Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US military column by the glass and ceramics works in the west of the city.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Husayn ĎAbd al-Aíimmah a spokesman for the Iraqi puppet army in ar-Ramadi as saying that the fifth Iraqi Resistance car bomb destroyed a US troop carrier, killing those aboard it.

Regarding the total number of US troops killed in the dayís five car bombings in the city, the spokesman told the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent: ďI fear that the number of Marines killed just today will exceed more than 50 because of how serious the wounds of the injured are.Ē

In its news broadcast shortly before the correspondent filed his report, the American occupation propaganda radio station ďal-HurriyahĒ in the city announced that the US command had issued a general high for US forces alert and a state of alert in the city.

Meanwhile, US aircraft imposed a heavy air cover over the city, while Resistance fighters imposed a ďcoverĒ of their own on the ground in the city, according to Mafkarat al-Islamís correspondent. There was no indication that US forces were themselves present on the ground within the city of ar-Ramadi.

1. New "terrorists" are created daily who are gathering against the Bush war of death and violence against them, their citizens, their countries.

2. His war of terror is also a war of terror against the America people. And they are sick of Bush and his administration's lies, and total ignorance and inability to conduct America's affairs in the world --- kill, kill, kill will result in --- guess what --- death to all sides!!!

LET THERE BE 2,3,MANY CINDY SHEEHANS!!!
THANKS TO CINDY SHEEHAN, BUSH IS NOT COUNTING SHEEP WHEN HE SLEEPS!!!
HE IS COUNTING PROTESTERS!!! THEREFORE IN THE TRADITION OF ABBIE HOFFMAN AND THE YIPPIES, WE ARE ALL GADFLIES IN THE EYES OF AMERIKKKA!!!
GEORGE BUSH, HOW DO YOU SLEEP WHEN THE BLOOD OF AMERIKKKA'S CHILDREN IS DRIPPING ONTO YOUR HANDS!!!

peace is better than war, love is better than hate, cutting an olive branch and passing it on as a symbol of giving up hubris is better than cutting off an arm of a fellow human being, and republicans, democrats, and independents are better than neoCons.

Great I voted Republican. But, as for me, peace takes two, we did not start this. Love is better than hate, I love the peaceful people. But it's my head I'm worried about being cut off, while holding the branch. As for the term Neo Con extreamism in any direction is bad

Here in South america and the rest of the world , especially me , are wondering the exact proportion of the american population that supports this neo nazi government ?
seek on the net This name : Dahr Jamail . He has an interesting web page . There you , fellow citizens, You can see what kind of atrocities are being commited by your army .
You're government is gaining lots of enemies . I should proudly join iraqui resistance . Its clear who are the good boys in Irak . yOU ARE NOT GRINGOS

The events listed in ramadi are more or less true except that there was never any major loss in american lives. Realize that there is no way that the military could or would cover up such a large loss in life. Trying to find issues while reading the 'resistance' web sight doesn't make any sense and you are only playing into thier hands by reading thier propagand.